Six big moments from Kanye West’s roller coaster TMZ interview

Kanye West dropped by the TMZ offices Tuesday for a roller coaster of a visit that touched on everything from Donald Trump and George W. Bush to slavery, black-on-black violence and West's newfound "love everyone" mentality.

Revisit some of the most jarring arguments and revelations from the "Famous" rapper.

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Kanye denies having political opinions, but explains why he feels the need to play nice with Trump

Declaring he doesn't have "extremely strong political opinions" feels strange coming from someone who sparked national outrage for donning a Make America Great Again hat, but that's just what West said in the hour-long interview with Harvey Levin and company.

"I don't have extremely strong political opinions. You can talk to John Legend if you want opinions. I have never been into politics. I just love Trump. That is my boy," he said.

West continued, adding that rappers like Snoop Dogg had previously made a point of including references to Trump in their lyrics, but turned on the businessman once he was elected into office.

"If you talk about Trump, there (is) a laundry list of things that I don't have in front of me, that my friends will text me, or write me emails, and say, 'He did this, this and this.' Some of them Obama did, too, but it wasn't as loud," he said. "And then there are positive things, right? That never comes out. That is when they refer to fake news, because it can be skewed… We are going to keep showing you negative, negative."

The rapper's conversation then extended into the TMZ newsroom, as staffer Van Lathan expressed his frustration with West's earlier statement that slavery sounded "like a choice" — which he defended by claiming that black people had a tendency to turn a blind eye to black-on-black violence.

Lathan disputed West's blanket statement, and urged West to be "responsible" as he told him he felt "slapped in the face" by his one-time idol's chummy relationship with Trump.

Kanye West was interviewed by Harvey Levin and Charles Latibeaudiere on TMZ. (TMZ)

"Trump is a human being also, and he's in a very powerful position," West said. "Einstein says the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. You can't just say, 'I hate you, I hate you, f--k you, f--k you.' How are we going to get a different result out of hate? Why can't it be OK for an influential rapper in the black community to go up to the president and talk to him about how we could make a change one by one by one? We have the resources for a peaceful world. I believe that Kim Jong Un didn't believe that Obama was crazy enough to come at home. Sometimes you need some crazy s--t to change something."

He was on drugs when he visited with Trump after the election because he had liposuction to avoid ridicule

In one of the hour's most intense moments, West recalled his December 2016 meeting with Donald Trump — and said he was "drugged the f--k out" on opioids for the entire meeting.

At one point, West stood and raised his voice to address the entire office, and revealed he had developed an opioid addiction after getting liposuction.

"Two days before (the meeting) I was in the hospital, I was on opioids. I was addicted to opioids. I had plastic surgery because I was trying to look good for y'all," he said. "I got liposuction because I didn't want y'all to call me fat like y'all called (Kim's brother) Rob (Kardashian) at the wedding and made him fly home before me and Kim got married. I didn't want y'all to call me fat, so I got liposuction."

West said he was first given opioids after the surgery, and started by taking two, a number that quickly escalated.

"I was taking two pills a day at that time. When I left the hospital, how many pills do you think I was given? Seven. I went from taking two pills to taking seven. So the reason why I denounced, why I dropped those tweets and everything, because I was drugged the f--k out, bro. And I am not drugged out. These pills that they want me to take three of a day, I take one a week maybe, two a week," he said. "Y'all had me scared of myself, of my vision. So I took some pills so I wouldn't go to the hospital and prove everyone right. We are drugged out. We are following other people's opinions. We are controlled by the media. And today it all changes."

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His new 'love all' mentality even applies to George Bush

West famously declared in 2005 that then-President George W. Bush "doesn't care about black people" at a Hurricane Katrina telethon, but 13 years on, the rapper's changed his tune.

"Even with George Bush, people said don't apologize. I'm like, wait a second, I just saw George Bush pushing George Bush senior in a wheelchair, and he just lost his wife. Do you know how bad I would want to go to George Bush and say, 'I'm sorry for hurting you. I was an artist, I was hurting when I went up to the telethon,'" West said. "I said something in the moment but when I look at you as a dad and a family member, I'm sorry for hurting you."

He thinks 4-year-old North has already had her free thought interrupted

One point West continues to return to in his endless stream of tweets is the idea that he believes most people are trapped in a mental prison and are unable to achieve free thought — meaning, people get used to not doing things because they've been told they can't for so long.

He bolstered his argument with an anecdote featuring his wife, Kim Kardashian, and their 4-year-old daughter North.

"White supremacy is a redundant statement in America. Whites are supreme in America, that's what we're taught. My wife said to my daughter, 'Tell daddy what you learned in school.' She said, 'I learned that momma is white and I am black.' I said damn, I wish I got the heads up," West recalled. "They said no, we had to tell her because of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.' But a white teacher told her that. So what does it mean to be black in America if a white teacher tells her that she's black? You might be Kanye West's daughter, but you black. My daughter was free. We start putting these ideas on people, that's why we are in a simulation."

He welcomes threats from his "brothers" the Crips

West isn't bothered by rapper Daz Dillinger's call for members of the Crips gang to "f--k Kanye up."

Kanye West talked about everything from George Bush to Chrissy Teigen on TMZ Tuesday. (TMZ)

The rapper said he had recently ended a phone call with J. Cole, and had told his fellow rapper that the Crips were his brothers, and that, if anything, they just wanted to knock some sense into him.

"He said, 'How do you feel when they said the Crips is going to kill you?" I said, 'Man, that was the headline,'" West recalled. "But when they said they wanted to beat me up, I said, 'That's great.' They're my brothers, they love me. They don't want nothing to happen to 'Ye. They just want to beat some sense into me. I love Daz, I love the Crips, I love the Bloods. I love everyone."

He defends his friendships with John Legend and Chrissy Teigen

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Conservative commentator Candace Owens also dropped by TMZ — and while West has praised her ideas, he didn't mind calling her out when she offered a dig at pals John Legend and Chrissy Teigen.

"When you put on the hat, that is the most unifying thing I have seen anybody do on either side, and it was perceived as an act of hate, which really tells you where the conscious of America is right now," she said. "It was the most unifying thing. I thought it was fascinating. I saw the text message from John Legend, and he said, 'This is hate and could be received like this.' The most hateful person I have seen on the internet is Chrissy Teigen. What she said to Trump supporters was disgusting. And that's in his own house."